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Short Film: Dracula’s Guest
This 2021 short film comes in at 20 minutes and is a puppet retelling of Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest, a posthumously published short story that is thought to have been an expunged opening to Dracula....
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Bleed Them Dry – review
Author: Eliot Rahal Artist: Dike Ruan First Published: 2021 (TPB) Contains spoilers The Blurb: The year is 3333. Earth is in a state of recovery. Vampires are real, and though far less populous, they...
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Party Day Massacre Stories – review
Directed by: Ox Johnson Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Oh my… With the caveat that it can’t be easy making a film, especially for newcomers, this is just really so amateurish that it ticked all...
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The Demeter Diaries – review
Authors: Marge Simon & Bryan D. Dietrich First published: 2019 Contains spoilers The Blurb: 'The Demeter Diaries' is a record of love and longing and the inevitable horror that arises between the...
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Short Film: Open Up
This was a 5-minute short film directed by Rob Gurney and centred on a vampire (lady-Viper) – ancient, by her own account – during the current pandemic and the UK lockdown. She asks what does lockdown...
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Star Trek the Animated Series: The Lorelei Signal (s1e4) – review
Director: Hal Sutherland First Aired: 1973 Contains spoilers Star Trek the Animated Series was an Emmy award winning animation series that aired between 1973 and 1974 and was based on the original Star...
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Honourable Mention: Nelly Rapp: Monster Agent
This was a 2020 Swedish film that was directed by Amanda Adolfsson and was definitely a family movie but very well done. It focuses on young girl Nelly Rapp (Matilda Gross) who lives with her father...
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Vol. 1 – review
Author: Ana Lily Amirpour Art: Michael DeWeese Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and...
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Custodes – review
Directors: Lea Borniotto, Vera Borniotto & Edoardo Nervi Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers This is an Italian film that is available for stream on Amazon and it is a difficult one to evaluate,...
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Kickstarter: Dracula Walks the Night
A project by the Don’t Go Into the Cellar theatre company – and I have been lucky enough to see a few of their performances over the years, this kickstarter is for staging an original online show...
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Honourable Mention: Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake
As well as being a bit of a fan of the vampire genre, I have carried a(n adult) lifelong love of Jack Kerouac’s work and, for me, his oeuvre is simply the best of American literature. His book Doctor...
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Teenage Vampire – review
Director: Aaron Lee Lopez Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers There was a 1989 film called Teen Vamp – obviously a similar title – I have said film on DVD, indeed I had it prior to starting this blog...
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Short Film: Vamped
This 2014 short film was directed by Matt S. Bell and comes in at just over 27 minutes. It is professionally put together but suffers for the fact that it very much feels like the start of a larger...
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Van Helsing Season 5 – review
Directed by: Various First aired: 2021 Contains spoilers Whilst I had stuck with Van Helsing from Season 1, finding it entertaining – even if it wasn’t high drama, I was less impressed with Season 4...
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Short Film: V
This 2017 film comes in at just over 10 minutes and, despite the vampire subject matter, I guess it might be classed as in the school of kitchen sink drama. Director Jimmy Dean capturing the life of...
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Dark Tales – review
Directors: Jason Figgis & Lomai (segments) Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Yet another anthology film that stitches together disparate shorts. It isn’t quite a portmanteau – there is a conceit...
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Dracula: The Original Living Vampire – review
Director: Maximilian Elfeldt Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers When the trailer for this flick surfaced, the alarm bells rang. The production company, the Asylum, are known for low grade films that...
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Short Film: In Extremis
This was a 14-minute short film directed by Gregory Crosbie and released in 2014 and what I particularly liked about it was that, as well as being thoroughly effective in a short space of time, it had...
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Use of Tropes: the Runner
A short film (some 40-minutes) that appeared on Shudder, this was produced, written and directed by the music duo Boy Harsher and is based around their music. To be honest I’d never heard of the group...
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Horror Reverie: Nosferatu
I spotted this online symposium celebrating 100 years of Nosferatu on Saturday 19th Feb 2022 running GMT 18:00 – 21:00 or EST 13:00 – 16:00. Registration is free via Eventbrite.
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